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All the people justifying carrying a knife everywhere: context, and also the kind of knife. I remember once being in the labor and delivery ward of a hospital and a guy visiting pulled out his wallet to sign in. He must’ve been one of those every day carry chumps because like 8 things fell out of his pocket, including a pocket knife that was at like 8” long.
What fucking threat are you gonna have to neutralize at the maternity ward you fucking nerd? Or do you think they’re gonna let you cut the cord with that dirty ass flea market knife that’s probably blunt as shit. All you’ve achieved is making everyone around you uncomfortable because america is loaded with incidents of mass violence.
The mere assumption that knives are weapons by default seems pretty foreign to me. Sometimes the "fucking threat" that needs "neutralizing" is a tag on a stuffed animal or a plastic clamshell container that can't easily be opened without tools.
Most of the staff at that hospital are probably carrying a knife as well. They are simply tools and come on handy more often then not. And I love your exaggeration of an 8"knife in a pocket. That would be a waist carry.
Wouldn't it be wild if he was somewhere before he got to the maternity ward? Maybe he should just leave the knife in the car, so that it's available for anybody if they want to steal it.
I work in a hospital, on the way to work and on the way back I often stop by picking mushrooms. The situation you described is not unlike my ordinary life.
lol one of the things we have to do in psychiatry is go through every patient's belongings on admission.
We've seen all kinds of things from drug paraphernalia to weapons to dildos (and one dude just had the whole lower half of a sex doll) but in this context the thing that takes the cake was the patient hallucinating so bad they were talking to the demons more than us and it turned out there was a loaded gun in the bag they'd had at their bedside for 8 hours in the ED. The honorable mention is the lighter that looked like a gun that I put in a little plastic baggie with a note covering it that said 'THIS IS A LIGHTER' so that no one would panic when they first saw it.
Honestly I don't even care all that much we really do live in an area where you might just want to have something on you even if it's just a nice hefty flashlight. I'm probably not going to win a fight, but I've always said I'll at least take a testicle with me and leaving behind some tetanus doesn't sound too bad either.